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Alzheimer’s Disease

Could Music Therapy Ease the World’s Dementia Crisis?

A new wave of research aims to move beyond anecdotal evidence. If it proves significantly beneficial and easily “dispensable,” the savings in terms of well-being and of monetary costs would be immense.
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Calling the Birds Home

In Her Own Words: Photographer Cheryle St. Onge

Cheryle St. Onge's photographs won the annual Bob and Diane Fund award—a grant that increases the understanding of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
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Neurosteroids: A Major Step Forward

Research that began three-quarters of a century ago has led to one of the first new drugs to treat depression in 60 years—and the potential to treat much more.
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Podcast with Jerold Chun, author of The Gene Conundrum in Alzheimer’s Disease

Jerold Chun, M.D., Ph.D., professor and senior vice president of Neuroscience Drug Discovery at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, discusses a genetic approach to solving Alzheimer’s disease, plus a promising therapeutic intervention.
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The Gene Conundrum in Alzheimer’s Disease

New cutting-edge research points to unique genomic changes within single cells of the brain, called somatic gene recombination, as a potential new factor in solving the mystery of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Seeking Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s

Q&A with Anthony Wagner, Ph.D.

In pioneering research measuring over-60s in many dimensions – using brain scans, biomarkers and psychometrics – Dana Grantee Anthony Wagner aims to uncover what affects memory later in life, and may even identify Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms occur
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What Does it Mean When What Looks Like Alzheimer’s Isn’t Alzheimer’s?

Patients with LATE experience symptoms that match those of Alzheimer’s disease, but their brains do not show Alzheimer’s hallmarks.
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Dementia and Gum Disease

Dismissed by scientists for decades, the idea that infection might contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease gains traction.
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Finding Links Between Microbes and Alzheimer’s Disease

Evidence is growing that microbes, especially viruses, have a connection to Alzheimer’s pathology, but it’s still not clear what is cause and what effect.
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Cerebrum Podcast #31: Watering Memory Trees

Dorthe Berntsen, Ph.D., talks the impact of reminiscence therapy and retro environments on Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
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